Infinite shapes of creatures there are bred,
And vncouth formes, which none yet euer knew,
And euery sort is in a sundry bed
Set by it selfe, and ranckt in comely rew:
Some fit for reasonable soules t'indew,
Some made for beasts, some made for birds to weare,
And all the fruitfull spawne of fishes hew
In endlesse rancks along enraunged were,
That seem'd the Ocean could not containe them there.

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Formes: This is the first mention of forms in the garden of Adonis, which to Plato, are characteristics a thing can have, and for Aristotle, the nature of the thing; Phaedo, 100d, the example is beauty, where beauty is a form: “The one thing that makes that object beautiful is the presence in it or association with… absolute beauty;” Physics, 193b, “the form is indeed nature,” that is a thing’s form is a thing’s nature.

Bed: The bed was Aristotle’s prime example in illustrating that form is indeed nature; Physics, 193b.